Engaging Young Adults to Birth Ideological Democracy in Nigeria: Social Media as Civic Education Compass

The Nigeria is endowed with 44 different mineral types amidst increasing poverty in the land. The commonwealth of the country was not equitably and adequately utilized for the common good of the ordinary Ahmed et al. Things are as bad as the nation been declared The World's Poverty Capital Dahlgren [8], while a negligible fraction of the citizens lives in mega affluence. The unconscionable lopsided state of the country is borne out of a nil-ideological democracy. Civic education that exposes young adults to the concept of political ideology to install ideological democratic practice is the peaceful way out for the nation, therefore, to prevent the palpable calamities that can befall the country in the continuing practice of plutocracy, extensive literature was reviewed and presented in advocacy for the potentials of social media as charitable tool of civic education that are urgently required in the country.